Letters: Celebrate storytelling this week

Celebrate storytelling this week

This week, according to the Wisconsin Toastmasters, begins National Storytellers Month. It starts March 22 with stories at the public library and continues through the weekend with the 50th birthday celebration of the Hatrack Storytellers, which runs from March 24 through March 26.

A special guest will be Steven Reed, who was a 2-year-old Hatracker and now appears on Broadway.

Mary Mellberg will make a special hat for suggestions and donations for the banquet Saturday night.

The next storytelling experience will be at the Manitowoc Public Library March 29.

This may be the 50th anniversary of the Hatrack Storytellers, but storytellers live on forever. Yeah!

Sally SemmesManitowoc

No evidence of Russian election collusion

“The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming!”

This seems to be the thrust of the latest attempt by the liberal media and Hillary Clinton supporters to impugn President Donald Trump’s victory. The core of their claim seems to be that (somehow) candidate Trump “colluded” with the Russians and then (somehow) the Russians “hacked” the election to help defeat candidate Clinton.

So far, none of the accusers has brought forth any evidence of collusion, but nonetheless, the liberals are on the TV news and interview shows acting as if collusion had already been proven.

Likewise, they say that Clinton would have won the election had it not been for Russian “hacking.” Never mind that the thousands of voting machines (mechanical or computer driven) are standalone machines impervious to outside hacking.

It is a fact that the computers at the DNC were hacked and the personal computer of John Podesta (an adviser to Clinton) was pfished. But all that was revealed by those hacks was just how conniving and disingenuous the Clinton campaign was.

No, it wasn’t collusion or hacking that did in Clinton; it was her poorly run campaigns in the blue states, combined with her long and well-known history of scandal, incompetence and lying.

Clinton is indeed a historic figure, but not because she became the first woman president. She will be known as the first woman to campaign for the nomination of the Democratic Party and fail (2008) to win it and then succeed in getting the Democrat nomination (2016) only to lose the election.

We can only hope that (finally) Bill and Hillary will take their millions and grow old gracefully playing with their grandchildren.

Don HallwachsTwo Rivers

Extreme politics hurts Wisconsin roads

Earlier this month, Scott Fitzgerald was acting as if he were concerned about Wisconsin roads and seeking funds to address the issue. Where was he in the first Scott Walker term, when the roads, bridges and law enforcement needed equipment upgrades?

Sadly, the austerity slashing on teachers, nurses, EMT/fire, city and county workers was their top priority.

Wisconsin was recently ranked at, or near, the bottom in road conditions, compared to our other state friends. The extreme politics at play with Fitzgerald, and Madison as it rests now, hurts all of us.

Regardless of your income or civic standing, good roads are good for commerce. And that is good for all in any book.

Cris OlsonManitowoc

Meals on Wheels cuts: 'Let them eat cake!'

Dear Senator Johnson and Congressman Grothman,

A thought on President Trump's proposal to increase our military spending by cutting funding to "Meals on Wheels."

Just before the French Revolution, when the people were lacking bread, Marie Antoinette advised, "Let them eat cake!"